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This goes for those of you that are doomscrolling on Tumblr too.

Imsane rule

[knightofleo]

Animated scrap metal figures by Guillermo Galetti

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I'm sure this has been said before but the visual storytelling in Happily Ever After is fantastic. The whole frame being shifted to the left (i.e. not right), the distance put between you and the Princess as all you engage in meaningless timefilling. Who she actually is comes secondary to you spending time with her.

The room being mostly white so the drawing looks more unfinished than usual. The tapestries of your apparent love that you can barely see against the light. It might be accidental but the shine on her eyes and the mascara on a small scale almost look like tears.

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Hi! 'Sup? Went to talk to my housemate and partially clean my bathroom and to go do scooter maintenance after this.

Anyways, the thing is. My thoughts on this episode aren't... negative per se. I think one of the things that keeps drawing people back to this season is that all of the episodes have something to like, at least. For me that's some of the action scenes, and some of the very good conversations between characters - especially Nadakhan and Nya.

But like. if you have expectations from what the first six episodes of the season set up - on all the character work for Jay and Nya and the villains, you're probably going to be disappointed by what feels like a return to Ninjago's usual formula. This episode is just a montage of the plot catching up with where it needs to be for the final few episodes, with a lot of throwbacks thrown in just for fun. It's cool, and a nice breather, but isn't something I think anyone is digging deeply into.

If I had to compare it to anything, I'd probably say it feels the most like early season 2? With somewhat improved humour and action sequences, I think.

[author's note: I originally made this post on the 7th of July LAST YEAR OH MY GOD FUCK FUCK WHAT DO YOU MEAN and just realised I never released it. The last two paragraphs have been appended to what I remember my original reaction was, but there's probably some of that that'll forever be lost to time. Sorry!]

I love Ed and Edna actually. unironically the best couple on this show

[nyaa]

[raychleadele]

“Why did you follow this person ? uwu”

I’ve been here for fourteen years, do you think I remember? I don’t know who any of these people are anymore. I don’t know why they’re on my dash. I allow them to stay because they haven’t pissed me off enough to unfollow them yet. “Why did you follow this person?” I’m not sure I ever did. They’re just part of my ecosystem now.

[fyeahkendricklamar]

Kendrick Lamar performing at the Super Bowl 2025 Halftime show

[nb-hedgewolf]

why did you do it?

[Image description: art of Bill Cipher. He's floating in a dark void, illuminated by blue light from the bottom upwards, staring forward with his eye wide, and with his limbs hanging limp. Behind him is a white panel shattering into pieces, showing a red and a blue triangle holding hands. A smaller triangle between them has been punched out of the panel. On the very bottom of the canvas blue flames produce light and white squares simulating a "pixel glitch" effect, on the opposite end, there are white dots adorning the void, gradually disappearing downwards, simulating stars. End ID.]

original ID by @anistarrose thank you!

[lowkeiloki]

guys can you BELIEVE my professors rejected this illustration of litle sharks for my college project i am devastated

disabling reblogs for a short while bc theyre becoming a lot

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Currently ping-ponging around this graph like the DVD logo.

This post genuinely altered the trajectory of my life and how i make a lot of my decisions and i think about it so much

[outtamynoggin]

Daddy issues... son issues??

Jason: Can a parent have daddy issues?

Tim: Obviously. They-

Jason: No I mean can they have daddy issues for their child?

Tim: What the actual heck are you on about?

Jason: Because I SWEAR Bruce has daddy issues for Dick.

Tim: WHAT? WHAT?!! What the actual-

Jason: No, think about it. Someone with daddy issues has: Fear of abandonment, difficulty trusting a partner, feeling insecure in a relationship, being clingy or possessive, needing constant reassurance, being easily jealous or suspicious, and attracting abusive partners.

Tim: *panicking* Hold-

Jason: *on a roll* NO. Bruce literally stalks dick and gets mad and scared over him leaving, he doesn't trust his robins to meet his standards, he constantly trauma-dumps on Alfred about his and Dick’s relationship, and he’s super clingy and possessive when it comes to Dick—like, look at the Titans! He’s obsessed. He literally asks Dick if things are alright between them CONSTANTLY. Abusive partners? I don't mean to talk shit about Talia and Selina but they're literally villains.

Tim: *having a crisis*

Jason: Bruce Wayne- the first man to have daddy issues... in reverse.

Tim: *whimpering* Please stop talking.

Jason: ...But wait... all these things... doesn't Dick have some of them too?!

Tim: NO!

Jason: *speeding up* No, no.. HOLY SHIT, IT'S A CYCLE! Bruce is feeding into Dick's issues and Dick is feeding into Bruce's because Bruce is looking for validation from Dick and Dick is looking for validation in Bruce and they-

Tim: *frantically calling* KON, COME PICK ME UP. I'M SCARED.

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“JUST FIT IN”

This is based on the colour code that appears when you type in “just fit in” in “this is not a website dot com”

Read the pictures from the bottom up to the tune of “rockabye baby” to cry a little harder yayyy

Am I normal about this???? No??? Will I ever be normal about this ???? No??????

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what

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I misread this as 'go into France'

tbh if someone just handed me a pressure washer and set me loose in the streets i would go into a trance and just start hosing shit down indiscriminately. it's not a question of how much i could clean, but how long until i get hit by a car and die

[freefallintothevoid]

Dick Grayson's unmatched success as a child vigilante makes a lot more sense when you remember the Court of Owls was a thing and that Dick was meant to be the next Grey Son.

There is no way that someone at Haly's Circus wasn't there keeping an eye on him while he grew up. A future weapon needs to be trained and monitored after all, and a circus, a place where weird skills are completely normal, is actually a great place to secretly train a child.

You know, just some knife tricks that translated really well into actual fighting. How to get out of restraints and pick locks while under a time limit. Death defying acrobatic stunts that coincidentally do wonders for parkouring. That sort of thing. Nothing that seems out of place for a boy growing up around circus performers to learn, but would literally any where else.

I mean, while I fully believe that most kids would want to kill the man responsible for their parents deaths, Dick was weirdly prepared to go through it. He tracked down Zucco with way more ease than any normal child should have too. He became the first child vigilante, for goodness sake. The first Robin! He only started getting formal training after he basically forced Bruce into it!

Bruce himself has no idea that this kind of competency in a child is unusual, considering he was much too blinded by the similarities between his and Dick's tragic orphanhoods.

Alfred is in a similar boat because he’s desensitized to weird children after he somehow managed to successfully raise Bruce 'The Batman' Wayne, so he doesn't clock the hyper-competency as abnormal either.

By the time the other batkids start popping up (Jason 'The Audacity' Todd, borderline-street rat with no fear) (Tim 'the greatest stalker in Gotham history' Drake, child genius, also bullied his way into becoming Robin) (Barbara 'raised by the only uncorrupt cop in gotham' Gordon) (Stephanie 'daddy issues and spite' Brown) (Duke 'Pretends he's the normal one and people believe him' Thomas) it's too late.

It would also explain how Dick got along so well with Damian out of all of them. Similar childhood with different approaches and all that. On some subconscious level, Dick recognises and resonates with the murderous ten year old assassin with strong familial ties to a secret elite assassin organization.

It isn't until after the whole Court of Owls and Grey Son reveal that suddenly Dick realises a whole lot of things about his childhood that suddenly make a lot more sense.